Abstract: The invention relates to a broadcast receiver, comprising a control circuit (7) for applying encoded messages, derived from a broadcast signal, to at least one storage device (12, 28), for receiving control data, derived from the encoded messages, from at least one storage device (12, 28), and for forming the messages from the control data in a form suitable for a display device (13) and/or a speech synthesizer circuit (14). In order to accelerate access to the control data, a reading device (16) for reading data from an external first storage device (28) and a second storage device (12) are coupled to the control circuit (7). Moreover, the first storage device (28) is intended to store region-specific control data and the second storage device (12) is intended to store traffic-specific control data.